Clementine UVVIS multispectral data and the Apollo 17 landing site: What can we tell and how well?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 104, Issue E6, 1999, Pages 14123-14148

  Jolliff, Bradley L ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Campus Box 1169 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR CRUST; MOON; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PETROGRAPHY; PLANETARY SURFACE;

EID: 0032728696     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JE900012     Document Type: Article

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